Selena Dickey
Flow 2018 Conference Schedule & Roundtables
The Flow 2018 organizers are proud to present our preliminary conference schedule featuring 31 roundtable panels. Check back later for more details about our receptions and other events. This year’s conference roundtables will take place at the Texas Union (UNB) and the Belo Media Center (BMC) on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. Walk-up registration and check-in […]
Read moreFlow Conference 2018 Registration & Lodging
Online registration is now open for the 2018 Flow Conference! In keeping with one of this year’s themes of precarity in academia, the Flow Conference planning committee has reduced the normal registration fee for graduate students and independent scholars, with an even greater savings for the early registration rate. It is the goal of the planning committee for this small […]
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(CLICK THE IMAGE TO VIEW THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM) The 2018 Flow Conference showcases some of the exciting topics that will be discussed in our 31 roundtable panels this year, including the preservation of television and the precarity of streaming media, theorizations of digital and analog flows, and the representational shifts of a transnational media landscape, to name just a few. […]
Read moreFLOW 2018: Roundtable Questions – Call for Responses
With the casualization of labor and the instability of the job market, precarity has become an increasingly pressing issue for both the media industries and the academy. Equally precarious is the state of preservation, as the production and circulation of media content outstrips the resources and workforce assigned to preserve it. Woven throughout and between precarity and preservation is praxis, […]
Read moreA Part and Apart: Hawaii and Domestic Satellite Broadcasting, 1967-1971
Selena Dickey / University of Texas Austin
Selena Dickey analyzes the way industry rhetoric shaped understandings of new telecommunication satellite technology and Hawaii’s regional identity, often configured as both a part of the domestic and apart from it.
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